In an open vote on the website Best European Destinations based on the preferences of the public for holiday or city break travel, Athens climbed in second position.
MITIDA is an online platform created by the National Documentation Centre, which offers the opportunity for educators of primary and secondary school to create educational content, by using contemporary online collaborative tools and open content from the NDC resources (repositories, databases etc.)
The first factory in Europe of sweetener production and products of stevia, will be made by the Agricultural Cooperative of Karditsa in Greece, at the end of February. Stevia comes in fully integrated production, from cultivation of Greek fields to the final processing and distribution.
The 1st Vice President Mr. Anastasios Kourakis met with Archibishop of Zambia and Malawi Mr. John. Present at the meeting were the Diplomatic Advisor of the House, Ambassador Mr. Spyros Theocharopoulos and the Head of the General Directorate of International Relations and Communication Mrs. Panagiota Miliou.
A Greek video on the nanotechnology employed by local firm Glonatech, a subsidiary of the ONEX Group, has won the top prize in a European student competition on nanotechnology documentaries.
On the refugee issue and the economic crisis, especially the sovereign debt crisis affecting the countries of southern Europe and Greece, referred the President of the Hellenic Parliament Mr Nikolaos Voutsis, addressing the ambassadors of forty seven countries who visited the Hellenic Parliament.
Yiannis Batas has set up five start-ups, has won many innovation competitions and collaborates with dozens of talented young people from around the world, with whom he cooperates to implement very ambitious projects.
The National Archaeological Museum will celebrate 150 years since its foundation. The new exhibition of the National Archaeological Museum brings out the incipient cultural environment to which the Museum owes its foundation, while the long chronicle of the museum's founding, character, history, and activities, so closely bound with the modern history of Greece, will be unravelled in a series of upcoming events.
Oracle has just opened a new software center in Greece: Oracle’s cloud development hub will develop software applications and tools and provide support for customers of the California-based IT company.